The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-02-11

where for ten cents they can secure a
nights lodging. is one of the safeguards
which we are now carrying out. begin
ming thus in a small way We hope that in
time we may be able to secure very good
results in the city of Chicago, as well as in
other cities Of our Union. | am glad, also,
to say that we are p:tting police matron
at every police station in Chicago, where
these women come in by the hundreds, and
where men arrest them, men try them, men
sentence them, men alone have one WORD
TO say to them. We have women in those
police stations [applause], and we have
put them there to guard and act the sister
ly part over these women who thought
that nobody on this earth cared one penny
about them. and we have brought it about
that no woman can be elected or chosen as
the matron in any of those prisons of Chi
cdeo unless the W. C. T. [. has endorsed
her character and fitness for the position,
Iapplausel, and since 81 per cent. OF the
inhabitants of Chicago are foreigners,
certain proportion of these matrons shall
be Catholic women. And good Mrs. Carse,
| who is President of our Society, says that
as she goes into those terrible police courts
where THESE girls are kept behind bolts and
bars. and she enters the cell where there is
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down beside the Catholic woman, and
those tSo lift up their hearts to God for
those women, and outcast ones, Mrs.
| Carse SAYS it never occurs to either OF them
which is the Protestant and which is the
| Catholic. [Applausel.
| And so those blessed Christian women
fraternize, and it makes us think of those
things wherein we see alike, rather than
wherein we disagree, and adds its mere
nent to the great solidarity which is coming
so rapidly in all the nation; and | believe
| the time shall come (and you will say | am
very quick-sighted when | make this state
ment) and some who are present shall live
! to see it. when an adventurous woman shall
rise to such sense of her own dignity, and
there shall be such protection thrown
around her, that kind Thomas Hoods
Bridge of Signs shall no longer be true
when he speaks of
cone more unfortunate weary of breath,
Rashly importunate. gone to her DEATH
There shant be one SO outcast as to take
her life; there shan't be one SO desperate
as to say,
"Anywh here, anywhere ont Of the world
for we will
Take her up tenderly, lift her with care,
Fa-hion'd 50 slenderiy, young and so fair
| God be thanked, we will not wait until she
is dead, either, but we will take her while
yet she is alive. Applause.
And so there is hope; and | who in my
girlhood for the first time when woman
| whom they told me was the sort never
wanted to speak to, and who gathered my
| self away from her Just as far as | could,
and thought had done most sanity act
then. would now 90 farthest and do most for
| Just that sort of woman; and when one has
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ward great question as that, when wo-
manhood has thus resolved to come to the
rescue of women, it means an Evangel; it
means new prophecy; it means blessed
and sacred hope.
/ And now, friends | tell you how sorry | am
| that | neglected this so long; tell you how
| ashamed / am that / had such false notions
/ and | come and ask you, us | have asked my
| >elfa thousand times, thinking of the sorrows
/ in your own city, thinking of the saloons and
haunts of infanly i'll this great rich city OF Phil
/ adelphia, come and say, is all this anything
| to YOU? You walk about on the same earth;
| you breathe the same air: you even read the
| same morning paper, ana are these women as
1 far from Eou rs is the planet Venus FROM the
earth? And have they been, and shall they
ever be? Ii so, the time, ii seems 10 me, shall
| come to you and me, that standing nj the
white throne OF judgment we shall hear them
saving YOU opuent and torceful women,
| whose happy fortunate lives were fed from a
| thousand springs of opportunity and blessing,
| you did not think of Us, unframed, untaught,
| y
| comes from intellectual discipline and educa-
| lion, you did not think OF us IN ignorance and
| darkness; you who walked on in pat rs llumm-
| ed by the light of christianity you did not
| think of IT'S i'll the shadowy paths of sin. You
! never sought TO match your riches against our
| poverty, your culture against our Ignorance,
| your christianity against our sim Shall il he
| said of us? There is time. There is a margin
| where we can work that it shall not be said
| tod grant that we improve that margin.
Frances Power Cobbe. the christian philau-
/ thropiSt, wrote me the other day, and She said
tatrts. al
ne feit thitt ne was so soon 10 20; ne looked al
| me with eyes so sorrONf full, and lie said some
| how, now that l know that | am soon 10 90
| away, il seems to me l cannot bear 10 leave
| the world with all this misery in it, Thus
| he, Who might have hoped if any, to enter in
! 10 the JOY OF MS Lord, thus lie who had every
! lining Tor him that II Christian could hope for
| on the other side, desired to live. Ana for
| what reason: Every man might wish to live
| because of the pleasure that fife gives him.
! rs here are tcndcr-hearted men who wish 10
| quit scene of such anguish and distress, but
! misery in the world. Have reached the
| heights of II pity so sublime? God help Us to
| have some CLEAN of it, even Chrisi's heart
! was full OF it. We shall find some 0bloquy; we
shall find II sort of apathy in certain quarters,
and we shall find the carrying eli the cross moi
easy To bear: but You know the discord and
iargon of the shore is silent to the ears of him
| who hears the solemn murmur of the sea, and
! with eternity before us, with its breath npon
! our forehead ana its eternal calm settling even
| now upon u.s. We need not be disconnected if
bad men curseand viify our names, good men
and we shall be those who have rendered many
home more safe and happy, and have pro-
tectcd many Il broken hearted and sorrow full
and untaught life
And now in closing just word of hope, for
il is the keynote to achievement. Ii we hope,
then shall we attain. We must take our ideal
| and hing il away ont yonder into the future
and then press after ii, rs those men that We
are told OF in the story when Bruce had died
they took his heart and putting it inside Il sill
yer shrine they flung il away ont yonder, and
| then pressed out after ii calling "Heart of
I all tla.s. sol.
| ideal OF man and of the republic and fling if
| away out yondcr in the hearts of men, and
then go afterit, seeing nothing else, knowing
| no obstacle And our faith in humanity needs
to be reinforced when we enter ON this course
| more than any other Let us believe in hui
situation, IN lis pain, with such depth of
pathos in this earthly life,-man made Il little
lower than the angels. y on know they say
there j. "A 1iend in every heart, but believe
there is an angel l believe that you cannot
20 in II country where christianity is shown so
some instance there OF every good ana true
thing You try to see. see many tokens all
around me of the nobility that is potential in
the human mind.
Did you read about the accident that hap
pcncd ont in Kansas City last spring hen the
great public school building? The dear little
inHoceHts were crushed i'm the falling timbers,
and amid the shricls and cries of those little
ones In rushed some friends of mine. among
| them MIS-. Hopkins, the leader of our White
Ribbon host in that CITY, and she said there
was one little girl, only eight Years old, lying
| there pinned down between The timbers, and
they went to help her, and the little ones fuce
lighted up with a smile grateful that they
| thought OF her, and then she said al am eight